The Christian Century - fastinghttp://www.christiancentury.org/taxonomy/term/4288/0
enThis Lent, give up products that are inferior to our producthttp://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2014-03/lent-give-products-arent-our-product
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<p>I try not to get too worked up about the commercialization of church holidays. It seems inevitable in our culture, in which most people are at least nominally Christian yet the real national faith is capitalism. The Christmas shopping season is annoying and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2012-02/another-ash-wednesday-another-jelly-bean-binge">the Easter candy aisles are dangerous</a>, but it seems futile to rail against things that are more symptom than illness.</p><p>It is pretty perplexing, however, when marketers try to capitalize on Lent.</p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2014-03/lent-give-products-arent-our-product" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2014-03/lent-give-products-arent-our-product#commentsfastinglentmarketingsacrificeThu, 06 Mar 2014 06:00:00 +0000Steve Thorngate26432 at http://www.christiancentury.orgFrom vegetarianism to fastinghttp://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2012-11/vegetarianism-fasting
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<p>I found&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/us/vermont-college-euthanizes-one-ox-spares-another.html">this incident at Vermont College</a>&nbsp;very sad. The sustainable-farming-oriented school planned to slaughter two oxen it's had for years and serve them at the dining hall. Faced with protests from animal rights activists—who successfully prevented the college from finding a willing slaughterhouse—the college ended up having to euthanize one of the animals, who had a bad injury and declining quality of life.</p><p>As planned, the ox was killed. But nobody got to eat him.</p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2012-11/vegetarianism-fasting" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2012-11/vegetarianism-fasting#commentsanimal rightsfastingfood movementmeatmeat productionveganvegetarianvermont collegeWed, 05 Dec 2012 06:00:00 +0000Steve Thorngate22008 at http://www.christiancentury.orgMore on fasting and self-helphttp://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2011-03/more-fasting-and-self-help
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<p>I cringed when I read Jeffrey MacDonald's accusation, <a href="../../../../../../../../../blogs/archive/2011-03/lent-about-self-denial">quoted
here</a> by Steve Thorngate, that Americans have turned Lent into a spiritual
self-help event "whose effectiveness is measured by how well it entertains us
and affirms what we already believe."</p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2011-03/more-fasting-and-self-help" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2011-03/more-fasting-and-self-help#commentsfastinglentself-denialTue, 29 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000Amy Frykholm13513 at http://www.christiancentury.orgGo fast and livehttp://www.christiancentury.org/article/%252Fgo-fast-and-live
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<p>Recently some huge billboards along British Columbia&rsquo;s major roadways showed black-and-white photos of car wrecks&mdash;gashed and mangled metal, clouds of steam and smoke&mdash;all illumined under the luridness of fire, flares, searchlights and siren lights. The caption beneath the ads was as stark and grim as the photos: &ldquo;Speed is killing us. Slow down and live.&rdquo;<br /></p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/article/%252Fgo-fast-and-live" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.christiancentury.org/article/%252Fgo-fast-and-live#commentsdependencedisciplinefastinghungeridolatrypoorspiritual practicesWed, 28 Feb 2001 06:00:00 +0000Mark Buchanan10561 at http://www.christiancentury.orgPCUSA fasting monthly to identify with poorhttp://www.christiancentury.org/article/2008-10/pcusa-fasting-monthly-identify-poor
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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is inviting its members to participate in a monthly churchwide fast for “repentance, reflection, and coordinated actions” to empathize with those suffering from hunger and famine around the world.<br /> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2008-10/pcusa-fasting-monthly-identify-poor" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2008-10/pcusa-fasting-monthly-identify-poor#commentsfastingPCUSATue, 21 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000admin8643 at http://www.christiancentury.orgSoul foodhttp://www.christiancentury.org/article/2005-03/soul-food
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<p>My first encounter with Christian fasting was in a Russian kitchen in the provincial city of Krasnodar in 1991. It was November and my host, a university professor, was preparing the evening meal at the beginning of the Orthodox fast called Little Lent, which is a bit like what Catholics and Protestants call Advent.</p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2005-03/soul-food" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2005-03/soul-food#commentsfastingfoodTue, 08 Mar 2005 06:00:00 +0000Amy Frykholm7076 at http://www.christiancentury.org